Sanctuary Asia

The Sanctuary Nature Foundation’s flagship Sanctuary Asia magazine founded and edited by Bittu Sahgal has been in continuous publication since 1981 and remains India's leading and best-loved magazine in its genre. Browse through select articles from our past issues.
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Cool Customers Herpetofauna Of Th...
April 2001: It’s a clear winter’s day in the Upper Nilgiris and I can see the hills rolling away to the horizon. We are headed for the further reaches of the

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The Frog’s Prints
February 2004: Working with frogs brings a strange but intense awareness about the present and distant past. Frogs created the first true footprints on earth

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Cherrapunjee Abode Of The Cloud
February 2004: We zig-zagged up the narrow, 55-km.-long Shillong-Cherrapunjee road en route to the abode of the clouds - the famous Cherrapunjee. A male Plumb

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Amboli Herp Haven
April 2004: “Varad! Snake!" and with that, Sameer was running off towards a small patch of grass. I rushed after him, in time to spot a Monticollar’s trinket

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Frog Discovery Poses Queries
December 2003: It’s not everyday that someone finds a creature that is new to science. But that is exactly what researchers S.D. Biju, of the Tropical Botanic

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Hema Gets It From Party For Attac...
July 6, 2011: BJP MP Hemamalini’s letter to Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister for Environment and Forests, seeking a ban on jallikattu, has drawn flak from BJP’s

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Ministry To Conduct Impact Study
July 6, 2011: In a major policy change, the environment ministry will conduct environment impact studies for big ticket projects instead of the project propon

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SC Allows Lafarge To Mine In Megh...
July 6, 2011: The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed the unit of a French-Spanish joint venture, Lafarge Umiam Mining Pvt. Ltd, to resume limestone mining in

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Orissa To Renew MoU With Posco In...
July 7, 2011: Even as the process of renewal of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Posco India has been hit by delay presumably due to the contentious iss

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PM To Meet Jairam, Jaiswal Today;...
July 6, 2011: Prime Minister Manmohan is scheduled to meet coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal and environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday evening to iro

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Ministers Lock Horns Over Mining...
July 6, 2011: Coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal is sticking to his guns in his ministry’s conflict with environment minister Jairam Ramesh, demanding that mini

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SGNP To Get Cell Towers For Bette...
July 3, 2011: Cellphone towers will soon come up inside the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP). The move is aimed at providing better connectivity to forest o

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